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Dance Notation and Computers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

János Fügedi
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The world-wide success and flexibility of computers as text editors encouraged dance scholars to strive to develop something similar for dance notation which would alleviate the burden of bad orthography, exhausting ink drawing and proof-reading for misspelled signs. Software for writing, editing, archiving and retrieving dance notation by computer became a fashionable project at universities in the late seventies and early eighties. Most of the experiments for computer applications in the field of dance notation were carried out in Labanotation and the machines used were mainly IBM and Macintosh personal computers with various peripheries.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 23 , 1991, pp. 101 - 111
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Copyright © 1991 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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